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26 Mar 2011, 9:57 am
(For details, see this post, and this one.)Third proposition: As such, there is no single person (or body) at the "head" of the Episcopal Church (USA). [read post]
19 Mar 2011, 11:05 am
Wolf to decide Episcopal Church cases is that the Supreme Court intended to offer, via that case, an alternative to the traditional approach by which courts were required to defer to decisions by so-called "hierarchical churches". [read post]
5 Mar 2011, 5:48 pm
From this date forward, the garrison of the Episcopal Faithful (also known as the Episcopal Forum) in Mt. [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 4:21 pm
But the strong feeling against bishops in this country after the Revolutionary War meant that there could be no thought of the creation of any such position for the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. [read post]
24 Feb 2011, 9:00 pm
As a result, The Episcopal Church authorities will not succeed in their efforts to force some 6,000 regular Sunday worshipers to vacate their churches any time in the near future – and perhaps never, depending on the results of an appeal of the case. [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 7:56 am
Paul's Episcopal Church, where she worked as bookkeeper from 2007 to 2009, to write checks to herself from church accounts without the knowledge of church officials. [read post]
19 Feb 2011, 11:44 pm
But maybe that is what God has in store for the Episcopal Church. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 7:57 pm
" If the parishes had left the Church separately, Bishop Ohl might have a case. [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 12:36 pm by David Ettinger
Episcopal Church Cases:  Did the Court of Appeal properly direct the entry of judgment on the pleadings in favor of the national Episcopal Church under Episcopal Church Cases (2009) 45 Cal.4th 467? [read post]
22 Jan 2011, 9:48 am
He made a few deletions in the former, to make it clear that he was deciding the case by deference to the "hierarchy" of the Episcopal Church (USA), and not on neutral principles of law. [read post]
14 Jan 2011, 1:30 pm
That decision was followed by a seemingly inconsistent one in favor of a withdrawing church in another case, as I noted in this post. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 11:25 pm
You guessed it -- by reiterating every single one of the church cases in which ECUSA was found to be "hierarchical", although not one of the cases cited held that the national Church was superior and paramount to a member diocese. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 6:41 pm by Christopher S. Jones
Future of the Mount Soledad Cross and the Establishment Clause The City of San Diego tried repeatedly to place the Mount Soledad cross into private hands, and based on previous discussions about the cross’s fate, one possibility is that the cross will be sold to an Episcopal church near the memorial site or perhaps to the general public via auction. [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 1:00 pm
"The Diocese is an hierarchical church, meaning . . . each parish consists of members of The Episcopal Church confirmed in or transferred to that parish .... [read post]
6 Jan 2011, 8:02 pm
Plaintiffs are informed and believe that the party defendant that has appeared as "The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth" -- but which has no affiliation with The Episcopal Church -- is either a faction not recognized by the Church or an entity of unknown form . . . [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 9:29 pm
" The Episcopal Church's Dennis Canon, however, fails the test on each of these points: (a) there is no "national Episcopal church" which "governs and controls" all Episcopal parishes; (b) the trust is not expressed in ECUSA's constitution, but only in its canons; (c) it is not, as just explained, expressed in the "legally cognizable form" of a trust; and (d) individual parishes are subject to diocesan canons,… [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 8:12 pm
It does not necessarily mean "affiliated with the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 8:03 am
The newly incorporated parish thus became a constituent member of PCUSA (which must carefully be distinguished, in this telling of a Tale of Two Churches, from "PECUSA", or [later] "ECUSA" -- the Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.).The first church, on joining PECUSA, had declared its accession (agreement) to that Church's constitution and bylaws, or canons. [read post]